Law and Family in Late Antiquity
Subtitle: The Emperor Constantine's Marriage Legislation
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: February 21, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780198208228
First sentence: MANY of the characteristics we associate with the world of 'late antiquity' had already begun to appear under the Antonines: the pressure of barbarian peoples on the borders of the Empire, the legal division of society into honestiores ('more honourable') and humiliores ('more lowly'), a heightened sense of religiosity and concern for the individual.